University Choirs

A Breath of Kindness is a beautiful work for women's choir. It is a tender reminder about how important and comforting true friendship can be. The music beautifully and expressively matches the text and is sure to be...

A Rainy Day is a two-piece set that explores deeper meanings of rain. The first piece in the set is entitled Some Rain Must Fall. With text from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "The Rainy Day," this piece beautifully...

Mathilde Blind's poem, "A Winter Landscape", is much more than a clever description about a snowstorm and its aftermath. It is a beautiful metaphor that compares powerful life messages to a snowstorm and the stunning beauty...

After the Rain is the second piece in the two-piece set entitled, A Rainy Day, which explores deeper meanings of rain. After the Rain focuses on the beauty and cleansing that comes as a result of the rain, and compares it to...

April Evening is a beautiful and simple setting of the Katharine Tynan Hinkson text. The message of the text and the reflection of the message in the music lead to a simple and thoughtful pondering on the Lamb of God...

By the Rivers of Babylon is a psalm setting that expresses the sadness and yearnings of the Jewish people in exile following the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC. The early lines of the psalm describe the sadness...

I Would Hear was selected as the 1st Place Winner of the 2017 Utah ACDA SATB Composition Contest. Such expressive words! Even though the text is somewhat somber, it expresses a deeply-felt love and conveys that love knows no...

The text for Inward Stillness is an excerpt from a speech made by Edith, a martyred Quaker woman in the verse-play Christus: A Mystery - Part III: The New England Tragedies by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). The...

It is Well with My Soul is a beloved Christian hymn from the late 1800's with text by Horatio G. Spafford and music by Phillip Paul Bliss. The words for this hymn were written after a series of traumatic events in...

Mine Arm is Lengthened Out is a powerful, yet poignant setting of the words of Christ, found in the Book of Mormon and Old and New Testaments, for all to come unto him and partake and deny him not. After his tender plea to...

Nearer, My God, to Thee is a popular 19th-century Christian hymn, with words by the English poet, Sarah Flower Adams, and music by Lowell Mason. The text retells the story of Jacob's dream found in Genesis...

Nearer, My God, to Thee is a popular 19th-century Christian hymn, with words by the English poet, Sarah Flower Adams, and music by Lowell Mason. The text retells the story of Jacob's dream found in Genesis...

Nearer, My God, to Thee is a popular 19th-century Christian hymn, with words by the English poet, Sarah Flower Adams, and music by Lowell Mason. The text retells the story of Jacob's dream found in Genesis...

She Sat and Sang is a setting of the beautiful and contemplative Christina Rosetti poem. The poem depicts the mixed emotions that come when a loved one has passed on. The music tries to reflect the same as it presents...

She Sat and Sang is a setting of the beautiful and contemplative Christina Rosetti poem. The poem depicts the mixed emotions that come when a loved one has passed on. The music tries to reflect the same as it presents...

Some Rain Must Fall is the first piece in the two-piece set entitled A Rainy Day which explores deeper meanings of rain. With text from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "The Rainy Day," Some Rain Must Fall beautifully...

Sweet Love Remember'd is a lush setting of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29. The music beautifully complements the poetry with voice leading that allows the choir to move in and out of the richly dense expressive harmonies. This...

That First Christmas Day considers the connection between God's love for us and the birth of His Son. Along with its poignant message, That First Christmas Day contains beautiful and singable melodies and harmonies, and...

The Amulet is the first of a three-piece set entitled Facets of Love. The three short pieces are all on texts from poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The Amulet
Where Way is None
Thine Eyes Still Shined for Me
The set...